Comparative Politics
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Korea: A New History of South and North
$18.00 Read moreA major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and ba- Author: Cha, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278705
- Language: English
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The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Add to cartLearn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593844122
- Language: English
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American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing Our Nation
$25.95 Read moreAn enlightened exploration of history to unite a deeply divided America
The political dialogue in America has collapsed. Raw and bitter emotions such as anger and resentment have crowded out any logic
- Author: Radwell, Seth David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348618
- Language: English
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Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
$18.00 Read moreThis #1 New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban available
This modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanista- Author: Rashid, Ahmed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0300266820
- Language: English
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
$24.00 Read moreExamining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times–from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive–Victor Da… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 27 2002
- ISBN10: 0385720386
- Language: English
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The Real World of Democracy
$16.95 Add to cartIn his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy – the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants – and their impact on one another. He suggests that th… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: MacPherson, C. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0887845304
- Language: English
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The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession
$19.95 Read moreA Left-wing populist insurgency exploded across the West in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis
After decades of retreat, the last decade saw a left resurgence from the US to Western Europe and the- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Jager, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292486
- Language: English
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Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking
$17.95 Read moreCuban art critic and curator Ivç–£ de la Nuez explores the effects of the policies that have tried to constrain or liberate Cuba in recent decades in these sparkling essays of cultural criticism.
Essa- Author: de la Nuez, Iván
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1644213249
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$18.00 Add to cartA new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
“[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist.”–The Economist Over the last three centuries, the- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280084
- Language: English
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Lo Que Nos Est? Pasando: 121 Ideas Para Escudri?ar El Siglo XXI / What’s Happeni Ng to Us: 121 Ideas to Explore the 21st Century
$22.95 Read moreUn retrato del mundo que no renuncia a un futuro m?s optimista desde la mirada de uno de los analistas m?s influyentes de la actualidad.
Incluso en estos tiempos convulsos de polarizaci?n pol?tica y… [more below]- Author: Na?m, Mois?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 6287669179
- Language: Spanish
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
$33.00 Add to cartBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and… [more below]
- Author: Acemoglu, Daron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0307719219
- Language: English
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Mexico: Biography of Power
$25.00 Add to cartA History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996
“A magisterial history. . . . Will surely stand for many years as the standard history of postcolonial Mexico.” — Wall Street Journal
The concentration of power in
- Author: Krauze, Enrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929170
- Language: English
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Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World
$55.25 Add to cartWhy did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches o… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Wimmer, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: November 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1107673240
- Language: English
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America’s Last Chance
$14.99 Add to cartThe battle for control of the Republican Party has been ongoing for decades; however, it has been especially intense over the last few years, the time period chronicled in this book. On the one side a
- Author: Crouere, Jeff J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997297700
- Language: English
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Governance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe word “governance” is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on “good governance.” Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of “global governance… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevir, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199606412
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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What Have You Done for Me Lately?: a politician explains
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician’s life. From getting elected to staying el
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187293
- Language: English
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Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It
$18.00 Read moreDisinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive a
- Author: Stengel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0802149421
- Language: English
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How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse
$30.00 Add to cartThis accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-… [more below]
- Author: Geddes, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1107535956
- Language: English
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
$49.58 Add to cartCompetitive authoritarian regimes – in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse – proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed stu… [more below]
- Series: Problems of International Politics
- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0521709156
- Language: English
